80 IE Bs ge 10 © fl Pe eh fa rh oe TD oo ee hn bE: a! WOT eS me AI cme Sammi A fad Vancouver 7 Co-op May Be Formed Plans Are Now Being Discussed Here For Formation Of Initial Committee. CITY CANVASS Claim Cooperatively= Marketed Milk Could Be Retailed At Nine| Cents. Despite recent announce ments that the price of milk in the city may be raised from ten to elevent cents a quart shortly, Vancouver house- Wives may yet be able to ob- tain nine-cent milk if plans now under discussion for formation of a Milk Consum- ers’ Protective Committee materialize. The PA learned this week that plans are now going forward for formation of such a committee with the immediate objective of Sonducting a door-to-door canvass of the city to enlist support for a proposed Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative. it is claimed that, with public Support, 2 cooperative could reduce the price of milk to nine cents a quart immediately, at the same time giving the farmer a thirty percent higher price for this prod- uct... Under present conditions, farm- ers receive an average price of $1.20 per 100 lbs. (40 quarts) of milk. Middlemen acquiring this milk at three cents a quart retail it at ten cents, with a minimum butterfat content. Cooperative- marketed milk, it is claimed, would provide a four percent butterfat content compared with the 3.25 butterfat content of ten-cent milk as retailed at present. The middle- man, not the farmer, derives the additional profit from higher grades of milk. While a bare 20,000 gallons of milk are sold daily in the city, Van- couver has i7 dairies with pas- teurization plants and some 200 producer-yendors ail delivering in hap-hazard fashion—an expensive system for which the consumer must foot the bill while the farmer gets an madequate return for his product. Threat to raise the price of milk to eleven cents is viewed with alarm by many families existing on minimum earnings. For the 6,000 city families on relief unable to buy sufficient milk it means an additional hardship. CCF Club Enters Plea For Jobless A plea for single men living at home, that they be given the chance of registering for forestry camp projects was sent to city so- cial services committee Monday. Alderman H. L. Corey recommend- ed that the letter be filed- Sent by Hastings Hast CCF Club, the letter pointed out that the pro- posal would enable young men to €arn more money than the inade- quate sum of $3.75 per month, the present relief allowance for de- pendents up to the age of 21. Slough Proposal Warning that if the social ser- wices committee endorsed the reso- lution, “considerable expense would be entailed,” Alderman HL. Corey, chairman of the committee, had a letter from the Local Council of Women filed last Monday. This body requested that any future works scheme brought in by the City should pay wages that would permit a standard of living publish- ed in the Canadian Labor Gazette. < Consumers To Oppose Higher Western Canada’s Leading Progressive The Peoples Advocate Newspaper VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1938 King Carol of Rumania (left), — pictured with his dictator-minded premire, Octavian Goga, shortly before the country’s parliament was dissolved and elections ordered. Goga thinks he has ways of “carry- ing” an election now he is in power, despite the fact that he polled only nine percent of the votes last time. State Hardships Worked Refuses To Evict Tenant Landlord Protests To Council When Shelter Allowance Of Family Is Cut. “T want to help this poor woman out and I’ve already spent $100 fix- ing up the place,” a landlord told the city social service committee Monday when he appeared to pro- test the action of relief authorities in cutting his tenant’s shelter al- lowance. Nine children were living up- stairs in his property, the landlord stated, and he certainly was not going to throw them on the street. Relief Administrator W. R. Bone, giving details of the case, said the house was condemned as unsani- tary and it was for this reason that shelter allowance had been cut off. We added that the occupant of these premises was a well known member of the Workers’ Alliance. On a motion by Ald. Helena Fut- teridge, Ald. H. L. Corey and W. R. Bone were given power to act on this case. EDMONTON, Alta, Jan. 28—The Trades and Labor Council here has passed a resolution demanding the provincial government’s support of federal unemployment insurance. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Broadway Ho Po is SS tel x Bright, Large Cosy Rooms With Bath and Telephone *x Refreshment Parlors *. “Where You Meet Your Friends” COR. HASTINGS & COLUMBIA STREETS Telephone Seymour 2391 SR a I TS ED < Pensioners Urge Revision Of Regulations To Council A delegation of white-haired old-age pensioners enlisted the aid of the city council Monday when it proved that Van- couver taxpayers are footing the relief bill for “hundreds of cases which should be receivine the old-age pension.” Showing the injustice of present rulings which force their children to support them, the spokesman for the dele- gation, himself drawing the pension, demonstrated to the © council that refusal through in- ability of sons and daughters to support aged parents automatically threw them on relief. E. R. Vipond, president of the Old Age Pensioners’ Association, told the council how he was re- fused his pension for over one year because he lacked proof of domicile in the province and technical proof of his age. Affidavits were not accepted by authorities, he said, with consequent hardship to many eligible for the pension. Preparing Brief. In an able manner, despite his age, Vipond declared he had raised a family of seven in BC, and had paid taxes for 40 years. When he applied for his pension he was told to get assistance from his son, then working on the CPR for $80 a month. At the suggestion that the courts would force main- tenance if he so requested, Vipond told the city council: “T would never prosecute a son of mine, and, besides, he could never afford to keep me on that wage.” G. V. Pelton, solicitor for the pensioners, told the council he was preparing a brief covering all points raised, and stating reasons why the pension should be granted at the age of 65. He urged that reasonable proof of age be accept- ed and that the city back demands of the pensioners if only from a financial point of view. Ald. H. L. Corey and W.R. Bone, relief administrator, will confer with the organization before mak- ing representations to Victoria and Ottawa. Attack On Labor NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—(FP)— “The entire front of repression has changed from an attack on the civil rights of Communists to inter- ference with the rights of labor, particularly the CIO,” the 1937 survey of the American Civil Liberties Union states. Next to in- terference with organizers, the greatest number of ACLU cases dealt with religious or academic freedom. Anni Brigade (Carries All English-Speaking Units With Spanish Loyalist Forces. EXAMPLE INSPIRED Played Prominent Part In Battles At Jarama, Brunete, Belchite Dur- ing Year. By BECHKIE EWEN TORONTO, Ont., Jan. 28.— Next month the Fifteenth In- ternational Brigade in Spain marks its first anniversary. In these brief twelve months not only has the Brigade made imperishable history but it has furnished the world With the glorious example of international unity that inspired and stimulated the Spanish people to make of their Popular Front a living invincible weapon for the destruction of fascism. In this unparalleled epic of mod- ern history volunteers from Eng- lish-speaking countries have played a remarkable part. Their Brigade, the Fifteenth, will celebrate its an- niversary next month with a pride that millions throughout the world will share with them. The background for the develop- ment of the Fifteenth Brigade can be dated back to July, 1936, when a group of British worker sports- men attending the Workers Olym- Piad in Barcelona fought side by side with Spanish anti-fascists in the streets of the great Catalonian seaport. Soon after other volunteers be- gan to arrive in Spain and within two months the Tom Mann Cen- turia unit was in action, a credit to the best traditions of British de- mocracy. Barly in 1987, the Brit- ish Saklatvala Battalion was formed. Among those who gave their lives in the cause of Spanish and world freedom were Ralph Fox, the great writer, and John Cornford, brilliant student and poet. First Canadians Arrive During the winter of 1936-7 groups of Canadians and Ameri- cans made their way to Spain and set up a unit of the Lincoln-Wash- ington Battalion. With the con- tinued arrival of volunteers the Fifteenth Battalion comprising all English-speaking units was formed. Plans for a Canadian battalion, the Mackenzie-Papineau, did not materialize until June, 1937, when many Canadians had already seen action in other units. The Fifteenth Brigade participat- ed in the battles on the Jarama front when Italian and Moorish troops were desperately attempting to break through to cut the Mad- rid-Valencia highway and later, while the Negrin government with its slogan, “Win the War,” was gathering its strength, building re- serves, coordinating its army, plac- ing its industry on a war basis and cleansing the rear of traitors, the Fifteenth Brigade with Spanish and other International brigades held the line intact. It was only because of this self-sacrificing, revolutionary capacity that Repub- lican Spain was enabled to effect its transformation. In the great Republican offen- sives at Brunete and Belchite the Fifteenth Brigade played a promi- nent and courageous role. In the latter offensive the Canadians proved their ability as shock troops second to none. There are now in the Macken- zie-Papineau Battalion approxi- mately one thousand Canadian volunteers representative of all parts of the dominion, under the leadership of E. Cecil-Smith, for- mer city editor of the Daily Clarion, Toronto; Bob Kerr, of Vancouver, and Weillo Makelo. Phone: HIGH. 5700 RADIC SERVICE 171416 Commercial Dr. ‘ i Strong. | SEATTLE, Wash, Jan, 28—Gar- field King, Vancouver barrister, Charles Stewart cS eee chairman of the organizational committee of Wancouver Trades and Labor Council reports steady headway in the current organiza- tional drive. Coast Unions Aid Defense Garfield Kins Declares Demand For Release Of King - Ramsay - King Is interviewed here on his way home from visiting his famous brother, Earl King, former secretary of the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen’s Union, imprisoned in San Quentin with two other officers, Ernest Ramsay and Frank Conner, ever since the maritime strike of last year, declared: ; “Whenever I was presented at union meetings on the Coast there were tremendous outbursts of en- thusiasm in honor of Parl. “T met union members who had contributed personally as much as $50 out of a pay check to help the defense. I met sea-going men who wept at the mention of their friend- ship. “The unanimous eagerness of American labor, regardless of affiliation, to fight for the free- dom of a trusted leader, has been a splendid and impressive thing to witness.” | __Seue “on ForracntResine | Aifteenth International Brigade Will Mark First ersary Next \TPoverty - Month Stricken Little Settlement In Queen Charlottes Gives Four Dollars. ‘ALL ON RELIEF’ Canadians Will Honor Famous Battalion On Anniversary With Huge Meetings. Indicative of the wide sup- port throughout British Co- lumbia for the one thousand- edd Canadian volunteers in the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat- talion in Spain is the four- dollar donation received this week by the Friends from a small settlement in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Accompanying the donation was a letter stating that the school teacher and the telegraphist were the only persons in the settlement in receipt of salaries, the majority of the inhabitants being on relief. Deadline for the provincial cam- paign to raise $750 in cash and an equal amount in kind to send a February- shipment of comforts to the Canadian battalion is February 5, according to J. C. Chivers, pro- vincial organizer of the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion. Following is a list of donations received by the Friends during the past week: J. Mulry, $1; R. Law, $1; Mrs. Stedman, $1; Project 14, $14; Sheet Metal Workers, Railroad Local, $2.50; H. Annend, 25 cents; Atlin Miner, $5; Atlin Miner, $2.25; At- lin Miner, $1; Carpenters Local 2068, Powell River, $10; Needles Trades Unit, $.25; Salmon Arm CGP, $15.25; Lettish Workers, $5. TORONTO, Ont, Jan. 28.—To mark the first anniversary of the Fifteenth International Brigade in Spain the Friends of the Mac- kenzie-Papineau Battalion here is planning a big celebration at Mas- sey Hall February 18 which, it is expected, will be attended by one of the Canadian battalion’s leading figures. = Feature of the program will be Remember Pedrocito, a play deal- ing with the Spanish war, to be presented by Toronto Theatre of Action. Mass celebrations of the Fifi teenth Brigade’s anniversary are also being planned by the Friends in Winnipege and Calgary. Jack Steele, returned volunteer, will speak at the Winnipeg celebrations. In the Timmins area the tour of 200,000 Vehicles Turned Out Soviet Union Leads Europe In Production Of Trucks MOSCOW, USSR, Jan. 28.— (FP) .—While auto workers in the US continue to be*laid off, due to the slump, Soviet automobile production is booming, according to M. Lazaroff, head of the industry. Soviet plants in 1937 turned out 200,000 motor vehicles. This figure is especially significant when compared with the 1929 production of only 1,702 cars and trucks. For the third succes- Sive year the Soviet Union holds first place in Europe and second in the world in the production of trucks. First place is held by the United States. The 1937 output of passenger cars was almost five times that of the previous year. There is increas- ing concentration on the pleasure car, of the types M-1 and Z-101, the latter bearing a striking resemb- lance in appearance to the Ameri- can Buick. Increased production as well as putting new models on the market is planned for the current year. In Gorky, famous Soviet automobile centre, expansion is planned. By 1941 it is expected that capacity will increase four times. From the original output of 120,000 vehicles, it is expected to raise production to 250,000 trucks and cars by the end of the present year, and to 500,000 by 1941. Enlargement of the vast Stalin auto plant in Moscow is expected to be completed this year. The new plant, occupying 1,000 acres, will produce at capacity 95,000 3-ton trucks and 16,000 6-passenger cars yearly. | scheme. Start Own Insurance Sash, Door Employees in Vancouver naugurate Own Member-controlled Plan Fighting shy of corporation in- surance companies, employees of Sigurdson’s sash and door factory have started their own insurance Assessing themselves $1 a month, it is expected that in a short time the group will have sufficient capital to meet any emergency. Oscar Morgan, organizer for the Independent Mutual Benefit F'ed- eration, congratulated the group on its departure, it being, he stated, @ membership-controlled organiza- tion like his own. The men have applied to have COUNCIL REFUSES TO AID SINGLE GIRLS” —_—_ City Fails To Act On Resolution Ald. DeGraves Refuses To Recognize Dangers Facing Single Jobless Girls. ‘TAKE HOUSEWORK’ In the opinion of Ald. H. DeGraves it is “poppycock” to claim that girls take to prostitution when they can- not get relief. “TE a girl is going that way, she will go that way,” the Non-Partisan representative darkly declared. De Graves’ remarks arose out of a discussion by the city council ot a resolution from Vancouver Moth- ers’ Council pointing: to dangers surrounding single girls of 18 to 21 years who were refused relief. The Mothers’ Council complained that no social services body would shoulder the responsibility of assist- ing these girls and urged that the city issue relief. The resolution was filed when the majority of aldermen agreed that these girls should be prepared to take housework when offered. Criticizes Council In a statement to the PA, Mrs. E. Gillespie, member of the Moth- ers’ Council, declared that the al- dermen did not know what they were talking about and should acquaint themselves with the sit- uation of young single girls, “It wouldn’t take much imagina- tion on the part of Aiderman De Graves to understand the position of girls who refuse to remain a burden on their parents and who find themselves without a job, hun- gry and homeless,” Mrs. Gillespie stated indignantly. When asked as to the house- work alternative, she stated that any girl in such a position would take a job. “The trouble is that they have to endure such slavery on some of the housework offered that they quit after making a little money in the hope of getting more suitable positions.” New Bylaw Discussed Trustees Leave Question Of Raisins $400,000 For City School Exten- sion Undecided. Ways and means of raising $400,000 authorized for a school ex- tension bylaw in the recent civic election, were discussed Monday when the board of school trustees met to discuss its 1938 budget for presentation to city council Feasibility of floating a bond is- sue in the city was brought up, but nothing was decided, Superinten- dent of Schoois BH. N, MacCorkin- dale intimating that an announce- ment would be made later. Opposition to the school exten- sion bylaw is seen in a speech made by G lLyall Fraser, vice- president Board of Trade, to mem- bers of the -Gyro Club Monday, when he was quoted as saying: “Where are we going to borrow the $400,000 loan recently approved by city taxpayers for school pur- poses.” Has Strong WA MATLLARDVILLE, BC, Jan. 27. —A strong section of the Workers’ Alliance functions here as well as a recently formed ladies’ auxiliary with improvement of conditions on the local works project—laying out of a park—their main immediate objective. Boycott of Japanese, German and Italian-made goods is enthusiastic- ally supported and boycott buttons are sold readily to local citizens. Act Inadequate NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—(FP)— Enactment of pending US federal child labor legislation would cover only about one-fourth of employed children, the National Child Labor Committee states, in seeking public support for a 2-point program de- signed to check childhood ex- ploitation immediately and halt it as soon as possible. NEW YORK, Jan. 98.— without giving any reason, Warner Broth- ers has placed a ban on the show- ing of the March of Time news- the dollar dues paid through the company office. reel on Nazi Germany in any of its 250 theatres. Sr ee